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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Gertrude Stein
    “I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas
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    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: death
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
    To heal my heart and drown my woe
    Rain may fall, and wind may blow
    And many miles be still to go
    But under a tall tree will I lie
    And let the clouds go sailing by”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: drinking, liquor, poetry, sadness
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
    (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
    (Gilraen's linnod)”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hope, inspirational, others
    513 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom
    1179 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: cheerfulness, faith, faramir, optimism
    1274 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11371 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “No Victory Without Suffering”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: absurd, bad-reviews, boring, complain, literary-criticism, lotr, opinions, reviews, tolkien
    721 likes



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